Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Venice:
Palazzo Ducale – Acqua e Cibo a Venezia Exhibition.At Palazzo Ducale, right inside the Doge’s apartments, the
beautiful exhibitionAcqua e Cibo a Venezia, Water and Food in
Venice, until February 14,curated by Donatella
Calabi, with scientific coordination by Gabriella Belli. The detailed,
heterogeneous exhibition is dedicated to Venice and the complex network of
support systems that the city acquired over the centuries so it could develop,
grow and prosper. The visitor is submerged in a highly in vocative and
enthralling experience by the works on display which are accompanied by the
“digital narration” of paintings, video-projections on 3Dmodels
of the lagoon, and virtual reconstruction.

Palazzo
Ducale - Water and Food in Venice.The itinerary of the exhibition is divided into five
thematic sections with the aim of underlining the unique nature of Venice, and
the constant efforts its inhabitants made to make the city into the one we know
it today.

Section
I - The Lagoon Changes.The first section, The
Lagoon Changes, uses 3D models to illustrate the morphological
and hydraulic transformation processes of the territory that endemically
conditioned not only food production, water supplies but also communication
paths to and from the mainland. changes.

Section
II - Water and Foodin the Lagoon and on the Mainland. The
second section, Water and Foodin
the Lagoon and on the Mainland, not only offers an overview of the difficulty
of food production in lands washed by salty waters, but also describes retail
and its protagonists frutaroli (greengrocers), pistori (pastry makers) and
fishermen. Tintoretto’s monumental painting on loan from the Academy Galleries,
(Jacopo Tintoretto, The Creation of
the Animals,1550-1553), above, also offers a sample of the
species present in the amphibious Venetian environment, characterized by an
incredible variety of fish and birds.

Section II - Water
and Foodin the Lagoon and on the Mainland

Fishing net samples – trattorello and
tela costanza – forbidden by law and included as evidence of a crime in the
file for legal proceedings against several fishermen – 1761 – canvas applied
and glued on paper.

Section III - Banquets, Parades, Games and Festivals.
The third section Banquets, Parades,
Games and Festivalsuses multiple archive sources to offer an
overview of the theme of food from a social perspective. The local festivals,
social events and occasions when food becomes a pretext for gatherings and
comparison are illustrated with a series of representative paintings including
Convito in Casa Nani alla Giudecca (Pietro Longhi - attr., 1775).

Above. Gabriel Bella (1730-1799) – Dinner at the San Benedetto Theaterfor
the Dukes of the North – 1782 – oil on canvas.

end of eighteenth century – black pencil, brush,
brown ink and colored watercolors

Section III - Banquets, Parades, Games and Festivals

Veneto artist – Forze d’Ercole dei Castellani

1717 – oil on paper and canvas

Photograph courtesy Musei
Civici di Venezia

Section IV - Architecture
and Food. Architecture and Food then
focuses on buildings that were used for the harvest and distribution of food
resources: monasteries, military garrisons, hospitals and inns. These numerous
documents describe a detailed system of exchange and rules that were part of
the Venetian lifestyle and a guarantee of their prosperity (Insegna dell’arte
dei Pestrineri, 16th cent.).The virtual
reconstruction of “Cantina Do Spade”, which still exists today in the district
of San Polo in Venice, offers the visitor the opportunity to have an evocative
experience of how a client asking for food and lodging was actually welcomed in
the historical inn in 1754.

(Sketch-map
of the far northeastern part of the shores of Sant’Erasmo, with the marshlands
opposite perspective view of the island of San Francesco del Deserto)

18
September 1687 drawing attached to the report by the lagoon proto Domenico
Margutti – ink and watercolor on paper

Section IV - Architecture
and Food

Gabriel
Bella (1730-1799) – A Morning Walk to the Rialto Erberia

eighteenth
century – oil on canvas

Section IV - Architecture
and Food

Andrea
Tirali – (Shop at Ponte della Pescheria at saint Mark)

18
August 1734 – ink and watercolor on paper

Section IV - Architecture
and Food

List
of food that has to be distributed everyday in the Pio Hospital of the Pieta

2
and 4 October 1712 – January 1713 – print on paper

Section V - Surrounded by Water.
The fifth section, Surrounded by Water,
describes the paradox of a city that, to quote Marin Sanudo, “is in the
water and has no water”. The water supply system is described with a series of
maps and iconographic images illustrating how water was transported from the mainland
to the lagoon (Giovanni Grevembroch, Deficienza provveduta, second half of
eighteenth century).

Wednesday, November 04, 2015

Venice Fashion Night -
2015. Now in its third year, Venice Fashion Night, organized by the online
magazine Venezia da Vivere was a night of fashion in Venice with events, parades, and performances to promote the
Made in Veneto. The consolidated format
of events took place in studios, hotels,
boutiques, and museums, open for the occasion until late. Emerging brands,
creative crafts and design, engaged designers,
fashion students, bloggers, models and photographers, and, the Venetian
community of Instagramers who posted their photos live on the social network’s
popular app.

Above.The
collection, Defense Personnel designed by Federica Zumerle and Francesca
Napoletano in Piazza San Marco.

Venice Fashion Night 2015 - Palazzetto Pisani- Round Table – Made in Veneto. In the
morning of Venice Fashion Night 2015 at the Palazzetto Pisani a round table was
organized by Venezia da Vivere on the theme Made in Veneto. The discussion,
between companies, media, designers, institutions and the department of Fashion
Design and Multi-medial Arts at the Universita Iuav di Venezia was followed live
via Instagram. The round table’s goal was to explore the unification of
promoting fashion and creativity of the Made in Veneto to an international
audience also through the web, social networks with the collaboration of institutions and universities.

Palazzetto Pisani. Director of
the course in Fashion Design and Multimedial Arts at the Universita Iuav di
Venezia Maria Luisa Frisa wearing a skirt by Fausto Puglisi, sunglasses by
Marco de Vincenzo and bracelets by Prada.